Iran ranks seventeenth in number of internet users: minister

“The latest report by IWS quotes Iran’s number of internet users as around 23 million,” Ministry of Information and Communication Technology public relation quotes Minister Mohammad Soleimani as saying.
“The report also says that Iran’s internet penetration rate is 34.9 percent while the world average is 21.9 per cent.” he added.
“The report quotes internet penetration rate in the Middle East as 21.3 percent, indicating that three percent of world internet users are in that region,” Soleimani said.
“The report says that 1.6 percent of world internet users are from Iran, showing that 50 per cent of Middle East internet users are in Iran,” he continued.
Soleimani said that according to Irans Fourth Development program (2005-2010) the country’s internet penetration rate must reach 30 percent by the end of the program, but the figure has already been reached a year before the deadline.

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